FILED SENATE
Mar 31, 2021
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
S.B. 430
SESSION 2021 PRINCIPAL CLERK
S D
SENATE BILL DRS45214-LGa-76A
Short Title: Regional Fire Training Center Funds. (Public)
Sponsors: Senators deViere, Clark, and Johnson (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to:
1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
2 AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR A REGIONAL FIRE AND RESCUE TRAINING
3 CENTER ON THE CAMPUS OF FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY
4 COLLEGE.
5 Whereas, the Board of Trustees of Fayetteville Technical Community College
6 (FTCC) is planning to construct a Regional Fire and Rescue Training Center, which will be the
7 first of its kind in eastern North Carolina; and
8 Whereas, the facility will span 30 acres of property, split into two campuses in the
9 Cumberland County Industrial Park near the County Sheriff's Office Training Center and Animal
10 Control Shelter; and
11 Whereas, the first campus known as the Technical Rescue Complex will provide
12 classrooms, rescue areas, and other specialized training grounds. The facility will also support
13 FTCC's Public Service curriculum, which will include courses in emergency management, fire
14 technology, and fire training. The new facility would allow FTCC to offer new classes, such as
15 fire investigation/arson certification, thermal image school, vehicle extrication school, and high
16 angle rescue technician; and
17 Whereas, the second campus known as the "Burn Village" will be equipped with burn
18 towers and structures. This campus will provide live fire buildings, apparatus bays, technical
19 rescue areas, and specialized training areas; Now, therefore,
20 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
21 SECTION 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Community
22 Colleges System Office the sum of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) for the 2021-2022 fiscal
23 year to be allocated to Fayetteville Technical Community College for the construction of a
24 Regional Fire and Rescue Training Center, which will enable state of the art training for first
25 responders in Cumberland County and surrounding areas.
26 SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2021.
*DRS45214-LGa-76A*